The cutting out/cutting down alcohol thread (part 7)

yellowmonkey

Manic at work ATM but 16 please Miss P

jo1972

yellowmonkey wrote: »

Manic at work ATM but 16 please Miss P

Yeah yeah....

Marru

jo1972 wrote: »

Yeah yeah....

:rotfl: :T :rotfl: :T :rotfl: :T :rotfl:

skintscottishgirl

Morning All

Hope everyone is well this morning:)

That's 10 AF days for me please Miss P

Thanks

SSG

X

shaggydoo

17 for me please Miss P




Shaggy

jo1972

Morning all,

Thanks for kind words yesterday of support and advice

Unfortunately I still remained off the wagon last night. I didn't want to drink all day, then I left work and decided I'd better buy some because it is so much easier to drink than to fight the cravings. As predicted, I now regret it and want to be AF today, it's like groundhog day

Marru, thanks for your message unfortunately the GP just tells me to refer myself to the service and they say that there is no provision anymore. I've been through them 3 times now and had one 14 day detox and 2 community detoxes, CBT and straight talking counselling and now they offer nothing due to funding.

SSG, thanks for your list of diversions :A I've drunk on a daily basis for 17 years, since I was 21, tbh I don't really know a life without drink so I guess I find it hard to get used to not drinking. I've been down on my docs notes as an alcoholic for nearly 5 years although this was the point I admitted it to him, its been longer. I think that my biggest hurdle is getting out of work and getting indoors without buying alcohol. At the weekend I need to stay in all day and not get the opportunity to go out to the shop. I can't trust myself because the alcoholic in me is in charge of the autopilot. Once I'm inside and know that I have no drink in the house, the cravings are relatively easier to deal with, even if I walk around like a bear with a sore head for an hour or two :rotfl: at least by 8pm I get an amazing sense of achievement and then the bells disappear, but it's the preceeding 4 or 5 hours that I find it difficult to cope with. Thanks for the ideas, maybe I'll try out some of those diversion tactics later today xx

Morning to everyone else! I brought a shedload of work home yesterday with the intention of working through the evening but all I managed to do was turn my(lovely new shiney *work*) laptop on and look at a very fancy spreadsheet that the Headteacher had sent me that he wants me to make even more fancy which I discovered is a huge problem as I don't 'do' spreadsheets. I need urgent help!!!!! Then I turned it off immediately and decided to forget about it, so now I am totally behind in my work as well as feeling like sh!te.

Ummmmm, let's see :think: how else can I bring this thread down today *confused*

Right, off to make the kids lunches, chow for now :wave:

Lurkio

jo1972 wrote: »

Yeah yeah....

Oh how fantastic is THAT?!!!!! Think you've found his new avvy, jo :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :T :T :T


Morning all :wave:

Well I made my pledge for the challenge before realising there was a certain football match on and what with all the excitement and tension............ I didn't have a drink :rotfl: I did have extra incentive though

So a star for challenge please, marru and another day please Miss P (double figures?) Think it is 10

graemecarter

jo1972 wrote: »

Morning all,

Thanks for kind words yesterday of support and advice

Unfortunately I still remained off the wagon last night. I didn't want to drink all day, then I left work and decided I'd better buy some because it is so much easier to drink than to fight the cravings. As predicted, I now regret it and want to be AF today, it's like groundhog day

Marru, thanks for your message unfortunately the GP just tells me to refer myself to the service and they say that there is no provision anymore. I've been through them 3 times now and had one 14 day detox and 2 community detoxes, CBT and straight talking counselling and now they offer nothing due to funding.

SSG, thanks for your list of diversions :A I've drunk on a daily basis for 17 years, since I was 21, tbh I don't really know a life without drink so I guess I find it hard to get used to not drinking. I've been down on my docs notes as an alcoholic for nearly 5 years although this was the point I admitted it to him, its been longer. I think that my biggest hurdle is getting out of work and getting indoors without buying alcohol. At the weekend I need to stay in all day and not get the opportunity to go out to the shop. I can't trust myself because the alcoholic in me is in charge of the autopilot. Once I'm inside and know that I have no drink in the house, the cravings are relatively easier to deal with, even if I walk around like a bear with a sore head for an hour or two :rotfl: at least by 8pm I get an amazing sense of achievement and then the bells disappear, but it's the preceeding 4 or 5 hours that I find it difficult to cope with. Thanks for the ideas, maybe I'll try out some of those diversion tactics later today xx

Morning to everyone else! I brought a shedload of work home yesterday with the intention of working through the evening but all I managed to do was turn my(lovely new shiney *work*) laptop on and look at a very fancy spreadsheet that the Headteacher had sent me that he wants me to make even more fancy which I discovered is a huge problem as I don't 'do' spreadsheets. I need urgent help!!!!! Then I turned it off immediately and decided to forget about it, so now I am totally behind in my work as well as feeling like sh!te.

Ummmmm, let's see :think: how else can I bring this thread down today *confused*

Right, off to make the kids lunches, chow for now :wave:

Morning Jo.

Nothing changed with my drinking until I changed myself.
If there was one constant in why my own attempts always ended in failure, it was me. I could change my circumstances, routines, etc but these things were destined to fail. That's because I was the same.
For me, it was not easy for me to stop drinking as I am alcoholic, and alcoholics drink. I can never NOT be an alcoholic, but I can stop fighting my alcoholism and learn to live with it. When I started to do that, the desire to drink was lifted.
Honesty, openness, and willingness are the three things I needed to start recovery. I had to be willing to go to any length, open to new ideas, and honest with others, but most of all myself.

graemecarter

treepotato1 wrote: »

Thanks so much....you too! :A I ordered Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Drinking out of curiosity as his stop smoking book helped me to stop smoking after 30 odd years and i also read that Kudzu is good for cutting down alcohol consumption. Of course, ultimately it's ME that has to do it but any psychological help won't go amiss.

Good luck.

has anyone tried Antabuse (Disulfiram) or any of those other treatments that make you sick as a dog if you then drink alcohol?

yellowmonkey

Morning all

Now contrary to popular belief I was actually busy at work yesterday. This does not happen very often but now and again I have to graft

Tired out today

Like the piccie Jo. Could not see it at work but very good :T

I seem to think that outside influence's factor into me having a drink Now where that came from God knows but I need to realise that if everyone is peed up and having a party next door and being loud and coming and going that me having a drink will not change the fact of what is going on. If the sun is shining and it is lovely having a drink will not make the day cloudy and grey the sun will still shine if I dont have a drink. That applies to everything really and what I drink has no outcome on circumstances out of my control.

Boils down to 1 word...ME...It is down to me and me alone

Now just have to apply that

Have a good one and work for me later

Take care